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The “big squeeze” is upon us and the UK is at centre stage with the roll out of the first regulated Carbon Trading scheme. With the eyes of the world looking on, the Data centre industry is squarely in the firing line. But will this be “boom or bust” for one of the most important data centre hot spots on the globe?

A main theme of this year’s conference agenda will be the assessment of the opportunities and risks that the UK Carbon Reduction Commitment [CRC] presents to the UK DC market. So how are organisations dealing with it? What are the strategic and tactical options for data centre operators? Will it make us more competitive or less so?

A great article from DataCenterDynamcs, do read the whole thing, it was an interesting read and I see they’ve got an event next month in London.

This is something that I know my data center colleagues and a few CIOs have been talking about, will the need to reduce the carbon footprint of my data center, of my business not only create new ways of thinking and doing business, but also new technology deployment in areas like virtualization and cloud?

Could tools like VMware, Hper-V and Xen be the next generation infrastructure? Simply by reducing the physical server count and combining it with more energy efficient servers, more effective data center best practice and technologies could reduce our carbon footprint. Is utilizing virtualization and consolidation not though the first step? Should we not also be examining our business processes – the forms I have to fill in for data center access, for getting a phone or a new pc, can we not move them all to online systems where we don’t need paperwork signed and stored for the next seven years. That my application can’t co-exist with the one we buy-in from the market access vendor, is that not an additional carbon cost? If we took this to the fullest extent would we not only start to see ‘the cost of doing business’, we might identify those back office/administration activities that might not be adding value to our core business – my prime example do I want to have four guys looking after my Exchange servers or, just buy in Exchange paying a set fee per user? Exciting times are ahead not only in terms of business and IT, but in terms of revenue, in the nature of how ‘we do business’ and what opportunities are created going forward.

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